San Carlos – October 12, 2026 -- Fierce MedTech has named Noah Medical one of its 2023 "Fierce 15" medical technology companies, citing the growth of the Galaxy System, the company's first commercial platform for robotic navigated bronchoscopy.

Fierce MedTech credited Noah Medical's long-term plan to improve early diagnosis and treatment across multiple indications. The Galaxy System is a fully image-integrated platform aimed at minimally invasive early lung cancer diagnosis.

San Carlos – October 12, 2026 -- Noah Medical's Galaxy System achieved a diagnostic yield of 92-96% in one hospital's early field experience and 96% in another's, according to whitepapers covering 165 patient procedures and 190 lesions. The data comes from D. Kyle Hogarth, MD, of the University of Chicago Medical Center, and Amit Mahajan, MD, of Inova Fairfax Hospital.

San Carlos – October 12, 2026 -- Noah Medical's Galaxy System robotic bronchoscopy platform achieved 100% tool-in-lesion accuracy and 100% successful navigation to small peripheral lesions in its first-in-human FRONTIER Study, according to final results published in the Official Journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology.

San Carlos – October 12, 2026 -- Noah Medical will present published results showing 100% tool-in-lesion accuracy and diagnostic yield of 89.5% (strict) to 94.7% (intermediate) for its Galaxy System robotic bronchoscopy platform at AABIP 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina, August 22-24.

San Carlos, Calif. – October 12, 2026 -- Noah Medical has completed 5,000 procedures with its Galaxy System in the United States, roughly two years after the platform's first U.S. case in early 2023.

Dr. Abhinav Agrawal of Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, NY, performed the milestone procedure. The company describes the Galaxy System as an image-integrated robotic-assisted bronchoscopy platform for early lung cancer detection.

San Carlos, Calif. – October 12, 2026 -- Noah Medical's Galaxy robotic bronchoscopy platform delivered a 96.7% strict diagnostic yield in a 31-patient multi-center study, and an 89% yield with a cost-benefit ratio above 1 in a separate community hospital series, according to two data sets presented at the CHEST 2025 Annual Meeting in Chicago.

San Carlos – October 12, 2026 -- Noah Medical's Galaxy System achieved a 96.7% overall diagnostic yield under a strict definition in the MATCH 2 study, now published online ahead of print in the peer-reviewed journal Respiratory Medicine.

San Carlos, Calif. – October 12, 2026 -- Noah Medical has created a Chief Pulmonary Advisor role and filled it with Krish Bhadra, MD, an interventional pulmonologist at Stanford Medicine who has performed more than 2,300 robotic-assisted bronchoscopy procedures.

San Jose – October 12, 2026 -- Noah Medical has commercially launched Galaxy II software for its robotic-assisted bronchoscopy (RAB) platform, adding Dual-Mode Imaging that lets physicians switch between High-Definition Digital Tomosynthesis (HD-DT) and Cone-Beam CT (CBCT) at any point in a procedure. The company says the update requires no added capital, complexity, or radiation.

San Carlos – October 12, 2026 -- Noah Medical has completed its first commercial procedure in Asia with the Galaxy System at Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong, moving the robotic bronchoscopy platform from clinical study to routine hospital use in the region.

Hong Kong hospital moves Galaxy from clinical study to commercial use

The hospital performed the first clinical use of the platform in Asia in December 2023. The new procedure marks the transition from clinical investigation to commercial integration, according to the company.